UNESCO’s International Migration programme studies the impact of migration patterns. One aspect we’ve all heard about is "Brain Drain" as skilled citizens emigrate. However, you can be in many places at once on the Net, leading to a more positive view, that of "Brain Gain" since many of these diaspora want to continue helping their…
I’ve just returned from an interdisciplinary gathering at the 1st International Pragmatic Web Conference in Stuttgart. Borrowing from the linguistic metaphor of Syntax/Semantics/Pragmatics, the emerging vision of the Pragmatic Web focuses on the contextual factors that make formalisms (like ontologies) and other communicative acts over the Web, meaningful. I described how my work on Hypermedia…
Barry Norton has been the invited speaker of this year’s AWeSOMe workshop. This was the second edition of this workshop which aims to bridge the gap between three major research areas: Agents, Web Services and Ontologies. The workshop was held as part of the OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM’06), on the 29th of October 2006. Barry…
KMi's work on Bletchley Park and the Open Guide to Milton Keynes was presented at the CIRN annual conference in Prato, Italy, last week. Mark Gaved presented a paper linking the KMi developed Bletchley Park Tour Guides services, Bletchley Park Text (a tool to allow people to follow up their museum visit using mobile phones)…
The first EC-TEL European conference on Technology Enhance Learning was held recently in Crete, Greece. The conference was organized by the EU Network of Excellent Prolearn and the ProLC Cluster of EU projects. Two days of Workshops was followed by two days of Conference sessions and rounded off by two more days of EU project…
KMi technologies have again played a key role within the UK's flagship EPSRC-funded Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) project. During 9-11th Oct. Dnyanesh Rajpathak, Enrico Motta, and Tom Heath attended an AKT project workshop at Southampton University. It was one of the more exciting workshops we've had, mainly from the technology demonstration point of view. Dnyanesh…
The 6th International I-Know Conference, in Graz Austria is the premier venue for Knowledge Management research. This year the 3 day event was packed with presentations and workshops on the state of knowledge work, knowledge management and knowledge media. Prolearn was, of course, a very strong presence at this event. But the new projects like…
The KMi-developed Open Guide to Milton Keynes was presented at WikiSym 2006 in Odense, Denmark, by Mark Gaved, co-admin last week. Mark attended the conference to present a practitioner report on the wiki-based community guide, part of the Open Guides family. Mark and Tom Heath have been administering and developing the guide for the last…
This years “jewel in the crown” of the Prolearn Network of Excellence, the Summer School, was in Bled Slovenia June 5-9 2006. This hugely successful event attracts top European students of Technology Enhanced Professional Learning. This year's event was unusual in a number of ways… See the guy in the front of the raft with…
The main conference about Web technology, WWW, has been held in Edinburgh one week ago. This conference series has a major impact on the development of the Web and acts as a meeting place of all interested parties: the W3C, academics that pursue Web related issues and the major inductry players such as Google, Yahoo…
